(February 22, 2013 at 4:57 am)Confused Ape Wrote:(February 22, 2013 at 12:18 am)Minimalist Wrote: I suspect none. At least none who would be recognizable as xtians in the 2'd-4th centuries.
I think it's common knowledge that Christianity developed over the centuries. What point are you trying to make here?
What Minimalist might be suggested is that during the first 2-3 centuries, the Christian communities grew up as autonomous fifedomes. And so while area "A" might teach that Jesus was a supernatual being who was never born, a 2 day donky ride to another community, "B" might be teaching that Jesus was a human being, a son of God like Hercules. And travelling betweein "A" and "B" would show wide degrees of seperation of theological thought.
It would only be with Constantine that all of this would change, a unification, and so someone who believed that Jesus was akin to Hercules would be hard pressed to relate to the Christianity that came after Constantine (which Emperor Julian, who came after him, tried to dismantle, but failed. All hail Zeus!).
I would also suggest that if a Jew today could get on a Tardis and whoosh himself to the time of King David (when there also was no temple), that it would be a completely foreign Judaism in most cases (today, he would probably be seen as a zealot who took on all kinds of non-Jewish traditions). Never mind that the Hebrew would be different, but they still might be able to communicate.
If this is not what Minimalist was inferring, I apologize.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
